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Peter Lipman
@peterlipman.bsky.social
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I've been a teacher, a co-operative worker, a lawyer and external affairs director at UK charity Sustrans, and am the former chair of Transition Network, the Centre for Sustainable Energy and Common Cause Foundation.
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 17h
Also see this new study:

'Emerging hemispheric asymmetry of Earth’s radiation'

Norman Loeb, Tyler Thorsen , Seiji Kato, @fredrosemn.bsky.social, Øivind Hodnebrog, and @gunnarmy.bsky.social

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Emerging hemispheric asymmetry of Earth’s radiation | PNAS
Twenty-four years of satellite observations from the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System show a northern hemisphere (NH) minus southern he...
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 4h
As Chair of the North London Waste Authority’s Member Recycling Board I prohibited export of recyclates beyond the U.K, except for glass and card, which I prohibited from being exported beyond Europe.

Brexit - which has been a disaster - isn’t the main or even partial issue in this instance.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6h
Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows
Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’
www.theguardian.com
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 4h
- Grim that media barons are buying up mainstream media and making them fascism-enabling propaganda engines

- ULTAGRIM that so many of the big-name journalists escaping that fire are voluntarily leaping directly into a completely separate newsletter website trap set by the same fascists
Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology
Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as “thought leaders,” researcher warns.
arstechnica.com
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 4h
This is American nonsense designed to keep you locked into your isolated, depressing, car-dependent lifestyle.

I know this because I am an expert in urban cooling.

Here’s one of my articles about it...

bigissue.com/opinion/heat...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 7h
Rory Challands: "[Keir Starmer] says that some people have been using Palestine solidarity demos to call for the murder of Jewish people, though he doesn't actually provide any examples of where or when this took place"
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 7h
Totally agree. (I had to look up 'Chesterson's Fence' and I'm glad I did.)
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 19h
I don't want to get all Chesterton's Fence here, but if you don't understand that a "microscopic snail" is an indicator species that's protected for the health of the entire ecosystem, you probably shouldn't be forming "good relationships" with developers
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 7h
Important new study by the @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social team in @nature.com finding that "the richest 20% of nations, with 15% of the global population, contribute more than 40% of annual ecological overshoot" doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 7h
This is scary

We need manufacturing capacity so we can't be held to ransom says
@nickdearden.bsky.social
theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Start by reversing the sale of previously publicly owned Vaccine Manufacturing + Innovation Centre www.bmj.com/content/376/...

www.politico.eu/article/brit...
Britain prepares NHS drug spending hike to stave off Trump tariffs
Officials briefed the Trump administration on fresh proposals for pharma pricing earlier this week.
www.politico.eu
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6h
Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows
Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’
www.theguardian.com
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 10h
" #India plans to increase its coal power capacity by 46% from 210 GW currently to 307 GW by 2035"

##ClimateEmergency
Indian states sign more coal power deals to meet rising demand
Indian states are signing new long-term deals for coal power. This is to meet rising evening electricity demand. This comes as clean energy capacity grows. States like Uttar Pradesh and Assam are seek...
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 5h
no words
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
www.theguardian.com
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 4h
NEW: As Linda McMahon guts the Dept. of Education, she’s operated in what she calls “a parallel universe” to radically shift how future kids will learn -- seeking to dismantle the public school system in favor of private and Christian schools or homeschooling.
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 5h
The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act theintercept.com/2025/10/07/t...
The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act
An authoritarian’s dream, the Insurrection Act is ripe for abuse — and Trump’s Cabinet is already setting up his justification to use it.
theintercept.com
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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 5h
Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-the-...
Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions - Carbon Brief
A controversial way of measuring how much methane warms the planet has stirred debate in recent years – particularly around assessing the climate impact of livestock farming.
www.carbonbrief.org
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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 5h
One year’s worth of bread lost in UK to wrecked harvests since 2020, report finds www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
One year’s worth of bread lost in UK to wrecked harvests since 2020, report finds
Worsening droughts and floods have destroyed wheat for 4bn loaves of bread and forced record levels of imports
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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 5h
Bioregioning: the defining practice of regenerative cultures www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Bioregioning: the defining practice of regenerative cultures
One could say that ‘bioregioning’ is our species long-term evolutionary survival pattern and hence a return to it may well be the most promising pathway our species can take through the tumultuous if ...
www.resilience.org
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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 5h
AI vs humans: The ‘singularity’ keeps getting postponed www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
AI vs humans: The 'singularity' keeps getting postponed
AI boosters keep postponing the advent of artificial general intelligence.
www.resilience.org
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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 5h
Yasuní: Horizons and Interstices in Social Imagination radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/yasuni-horiz...
Yasuní: Horizons and Interstices in Social Imagination
Esperanza Martínez The Yasuní struggle in Ecuador embodies a historic challenge to extractivism by crystallizing the demand to “leave oil underground” into a national referendum victory in 2023. De…
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h
NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 12h
I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h
NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7h
On the one hand, medical science is beginning to get a handle on the very complex physiological basis of this disease. On the other hand, we can expect the greatest medical scandal (so far) of the 21st Century – the mass mistreatment and neglect of ME/CFS sufferers – to continue.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7h
This commission points to where the government is heading. If the problem is “overdiagnosis” – which appears to be its foregone conclusion – then large numbers of people with horrendous conditions will be put through an even more punishing regime of tests and obstacles to qualify for benefits.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7h
To rub salt into their wounds, these patients have watched as the man many see as their tormentor-in-chief has been garlanded with honours, including a knighthood. His latest appointment is yet another blow.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7h
Many patients have been forced into useless and sometimes dangerous “buck up” treatments such as Graded Exercise Therapy and CBT, in some cases long after these “treatments” have been debunked. The most eminent advocate of these treatments? Professor Sir Simon Wesseley.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7h
They desperately want to be able to work, to socialise, to experience all the other joys of life. But because the condition is so poorly understood, they have been repeatedly treated as if they were “malingerers” or “hysterics”. Which suits the government just fine.
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